Izmir Hatirasi - Smyrna Recollections - Muammer Ketencoglu

Title: Izmir Hatirasi - Smyrna Recollections
Artist: Muammer Ketencoglu
Year: 2007
Production: Kalan records
Description: A collection of songs of Smyrni and the Aegean costs, from Greeks, Turks, Jews
Comments: Something very new for the discography in Turkey, unknown music, from the minorities. Except from very known Turkish musicians that participate in the Cd, there are Greek singers as well, like Stelios Berberis, Ivi Demerci and Panagiota Mihaleli.

Title tracks
1. Ucun Kuslar
2. Mendilimin Ucuna Sakiz Bagladim Sakiz
3. Hicaz Taksim
4. Esma
5. Izmir Uclemesi Sample
6. To Salvari
7. Alt`ay Oldu Ben Bu Dagi Asali
8. Hurmuz Hanim
9. Muhayyer Taksim
10. Milo Mu Ke Mandarini
11. Segah Taksim
12. Uc Kemerin Dibegi
13. Alma Miya
14. Su Izmir`den Cekirdeksiz Nar Gelir
15. To Dervisaki
16. Gokcen Efe`m
17. Yalo Yalo

Music Score - Min Orkisesai vre psefta - Dimitris Semsis

Song title: Min orkisese vre pseftra, Μην ορκίζεσαι βρε ψεύτρα, Dont swear you lier.
Written: Giorgos Petropouleas, Dimitris Semsis
Style: Smyrneiko
Versions by: Roza Eskenazi, and Katerina Papadopoulou with Estoudiantina Neas Ionias
Music score in various formats
Music score: Stelios Varveris
Files

Antonios Dalgas or Diamantidis

Arnoukoi, Constantinople 1882 - Athens 1945. He started from the age of 16 playing oud in Constantinople, and at 18 he was already an established singer, singing in the cafe aman and the panigiria of the City. The nick name "Dalgkas" was issued for his excellent voice, and which he remained known. In 1922 he came to Greece, worked with many musical forms, in which he sang amanedes, songs of Asia Minor, rebetika, European, light, traditional, and as a musician he played the oud and the nine chord guitar. In 1926 he made his first recording with the “Minore mane” . He has recorded more than 430 titles, of which 89 amanedes, and has written 78 of his own compositions. Since 1934, he dealt with highly paid performances in a tavern in Koukaki Athens, leaving aside the recordings, while the last he made where in the late'30s. With the entry of the Germans in Athens in 1941 he stopped the performances and in 1945 he died.


Αντώνιος Νταλγκάς ή Διαμαντίδης
Αρνούκοϊ, Κωνσταντινούπολη 1882 - Αθήνα 1945. Άρχισε από ηλικία 16 ετών να παίζει ούτι στη Πόλη, και στα 18 του έγινε ήδη καθιερωμένος τραγουδιστής, τραγουδώντας στα καφέ αμάν και τα πανηγύρια της Πόλης. Το προσωνύμιο "Νταλγκάς" του δόθηκε για την εξαιρετική του φωνή και με το οποίο παρέμεινε γνωστός. Το 1922 ήρθε στην Ελλάδα, συνεργάστηκε με πολλά μουσικά σχήματα, στα οποία τραγουδούσε αμανέδες, μικρασιάτικα, ρεμπέτικα, ευρωπαϊκά, ελαφρά, δημοτικά, και ως μουσικός έπαιζε ούτι και εννιάχορδη κιθάρα.

Το 1926 ηχογραφεί το πρώτο του δίσκο με το "Μινόρε μανέ". Έχει ηχογραφήσει περισσότερα από 430 τραγούδια, από τα οποία είναι 89 αμανέδες ενώ έχει γράψει 78 δικές του συνθέσεις. Από το 1934, ασχολήθηκε περισσότερο με υψηλής αμοιβής εμφανίσεις, σε ταβέρνα στο Κουκάκι αφήνοντας κατά μέρος τις ηχογραφήσεις, ενώ τις τελευταίες του τις πραγματοποίησε κατά τα τέλη του '30. Με την είσοδο των Γερμανών στην Αθήνα το 1941 σταμάτησε τις εμφανίσεις του και το 1945 απεβίωσε.

Introduction files:
1. Antonios Dalgas - Manes mpestenkiar
2. Antonios Dalgas - Manes Tis Avyis
3. Grigoros Asikis - Eleni Elenara mou (Andonios Dalgas)
4. Zaharias Kassimatis - Stous Podarades (Andonios Dalgas)
5. Antonios Dalgas - Apo ligo ligo
6. Antonios Dalgas - Ego eim enos psara paidi
7. Antonios Dalgas - Karotsierhs
8. Antonios Dalgas - Manaki mou

Asia Minor Μικρά Ασία (Αιγαίο) - Various Turkish Artists

Title: Asia Minor Μικρά Ασία (Αιγαίο)
Artists: Various
Year: 2003
Published: http://www.hellenicrecord.gr/
Production: Petros Tambouris
Description: A collection of songs and tunes of Turkish artists of Asia Minor and the Aegean coast of Turkey
Comments: A fine introduction, to old recordings, and artists, like Sukru Tunar, Haydar Tatliyay.
The minus is there is no information, on the artists and the music.

Titles tracks:
1. Şükrü Tounar - Kordon Zeybek (Kordon Zeybeği)
2. Turkish Popular Orchestra - Kasap Havasi (Kasap Havasi)
3. Haydar Tatlıyay - Chol Kizi (Çöl Kızı)
4. Şükrü Tounar - Yunt Dayi Zeybek (Yunt Daği Zeybeği)
5. Turkish Popular Orchestra - Kathane Tsiftetelli (Kathane Çiftetelli)
6. Şükrü Tounar - Ege Zeybek (Ege Zeybeği)
7. Haydar Tatlıyay - Kourdilihijazkiar Sirto (Kürdilihicazkiâr Sirto)
8. Nick Donef - Karshilama (Karşilama)
9. Turkish Popular Orchestra - Izmir Zeybek (Izmir Zeybeği) Sample
10. Moysis Koinoghlou - Tsiftetelli (Çiftetelli)
11. Cemil Bey - Zeybek Havasi (Zeybek Havasi)
12. Haydar Tatlıyay - Nihavent Sirto (Nihavent Sirto)
13. Şükrü Tounar - Hijaz Raks (Hicaz Raks)
14. Haydar Tatlıyay - Oushak Oyun Havasi (Uşşak Oyun Havasi)
15. Şükrü Tounar - Soultaniyegiah Sirto (Sultaniyegâh Sirto)
16. Bayram Araci - Atim Arap (Atım Arap)
17. Haydar Tatlıyay - Çiftetelli Oyun Havasi
18. Şükrü Tounar - Aydin Zeybek (Aydin Zeybeği) Sample
19. Marika Papagika - Sinanai (Sinanai)
20. Şükrü Tounar - Hovarda Zeybek (Hovarda Zeybeği)

Road to Rebetika - Gail Host

Book title: Road to Rebetiko, Δρόμος για το ρεμπέτικο
Author: Gail Host
ISBN: Greek edition 960-7120-00-0, Turkish edition 9789757652199
Language: Greek, English, Turkish
Year: First English edition 1975
Publisher:
Description: One of the first books written on the rebetiko, that has all the basic knowledge for anyone wanting to learn about this music.
Content: 1. How I found rebetiko, 2 Peireaus 1920-the raod starts, 3. The world of a rebeti - Markos Vamvakaris, 4. The good days of the rebetiko - Smyneiko and Peiraiotiko, 5. The days of the war - Vasilis Tsitsanis, 6. The backbone of the rebetiko, the "roads", and maqams, 7. Looking back, 8. The songs, 9. Manuscripts, Lelakis, Tsitsanis, Moshonas, Vamvakaris
Articals from newspapers
Links: (Turkish edition)

Ta hairia mas mas edo - Giorgis Papazoglou

Book title: Ta hairiamas mas edo - Giorgis Papazoglou
ISBN: 960-8144-80-9
Year: 1986
Language: Greek
Publisher: Eptalofos www.eptalofos.com.gr
Description: This book has the life from interviews of the widow of Vaggelis Papazoglou, Aggela, who also was a singer in Smyrni (Asia Minor). It talks about everything, the life in Smyrni, the destruction of Smyrni, the later life of a refugee in Athens, and about the life and works of her husband Vaggelis.

Vaggelis Papazoglou - Introduction

(Smyrni 1895-97 – Athens 1943)



«Aggouris (Nick name the Cucumber)». Born Smyrni, 1895-97 – died Athens 1943). Distinguished folk musician and song maker, of the leading pre-war Rebetes. Furthermore, he ranks among the few with character and integrity. He was playing santouri, mandolin, guitar, violin and banjo. Between 1919-20 he played in «Estountiantina Smyrna» group of Smyrni. He came to Greece in the Destruction of 1922 and settled in Kokkinia of Athens. Recorded only during the 3 years 1933-36, and then collided with tenacious censorship of «4th of August » (about the song «The skint - Batiris». When the lyrics «I have to get my chance to get ill so if I have the right to live free », although the censors have offered to replace the «free» to «happy», and the author replied that the free is only happy !...). He used the nickname "Cucumber" and wrote notes on a music He wrote: "Under the lemon tree," The vegetables "("Police man dot hit me": 1933),« Argiles »(1933),« If I were a man »(1933)," Pente hronia dikasmenos – five years convicted"," Put me in your arms"," The xemagkas"(1935)," Strive 'koutsavaki man","Children of the road","Bampesa "(which impressed the [[the compose Attik]. The smuggling "(later appropriated by the B. Vasiliadis entitled "Ante two eyes "),« The Nikoklakias »,"Geromagkas ",« I say that it seems to me » (1936),« As I returned from Pilos »(1936),« We will solve » (or« mystery », 1936),« The remove »and several others who were released several«folk vardoi »on; ... On behalf of LP records to revive the old recordings of note: "Vangelis Papazoglou (1982)," The old is new "(1984)," The Smyrneiko song in Greece "(1993, reprinted in" Vangelis Papazoglou "). According to George Lekakis he was the composer that Tsitsanis admired most, and the sophisticated Nick Armaos regarded him as the "best of all’. He died in the German possession of Greece and under deprivation and tuberculosis. His wife, also known a singer of the rebetiko song, Ageliki Papazoglou (Smirni 1899 - Athens 1983) was the daughter of the famous violinist and santourieri Dimitris Maroniti (who has the nickname «the Chiotaki»). It is remarkable and that left 750 pages of handwritten notes with valuable information about the music life of Izmir before the destruction.

From the "Dictionary of Greek Music"
of T. Kalogeropoulos

Introduction music

Playlist files:

1. Rita Ambaci - Zourlopenemenis genna
2. Stellakis Perpiniadis - Agiothodoritissa
3. Stellakis Perpiniadis - I foni tou argile (Pente hronia dikasmenos)
4. Kostas Roukounas - Kato sta lemonadika (Oi lahanades)
5. Virginia Magidou - Tsahpina Amerikana
6. Stellakis Perpiniadis - Vale me stin agkalia sou
7. Rita Ambaci - Varethika ton argile (O xemagkas)